A warm Sunday evening on the sands of Maui's Makena Beach Resort in January 2010 had led to a group dinner and then an invitation from the pilot to have drinks on his balcony, which she accepted. Once in the room, he “dragged her onto the bed, kissing her and groping her” as she “physically resisted the assault and yelled for him to stop,” according to Lewis's 2016 lawsuit against WestJet, filed in B.C. Supreme Court.
Complaints citing sex in the flight industry have more than doubled over the past decade or so, totalling 118 in the period between 2014 and 2018, according to the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Harassment-specific complaints that cite sex rose 58 per cent between 2004 and 2018. On a flight between Yellowknife and Whitehorse this year, a pilot phoned her from the cockpit to ask, “'What is the difference between a chickpea and a lentil?' Then he said, 'The difference is that I would not pay to have a lentil pee on my face,”' recalled LePage, who is in her 20s and works at a major Canadian airline.
“I just remember the feeling of the back of his hand on my upper arm...and of course it was unwelcome. So I said, 'OK, I've got to go.' And as I'm on my way out, the first officer does the same dang thing.” “That can create more vulnerability and more potential for harm for people on the receiving end of those comments or that conduct.”
Lots of Sexist comments on here ..birds of the same feather
The number of people mocking the sexual assault allegations in the replies is its own brand of fucked up. Ah, twitter news feeds; where you go to feel sickened by people's apathy and casual cruelty.
Does that mean that I would finally get a chance to get a date if I change to work for airline.
I've been slapped on the ass and grabbed by a couple unsavoury looking dudes.. Does that make me a survivor?
Hopefully the planes don't have to parallel park 😳
story sounds fishy
If the airline industry starts putting pilots in the cockpit based on gender rather than skill/qualifications, it will go bankrupt.